Magazine article
Drawing up a winning schedule: How to maximize OR efficiency and minimize patient waiting time on the day of surgery
Outpatient surgery, pp.38-47
04/2005
Abstract
So long as there are surgeons who arrive late, cases that run long, nurses who call out sick and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms that present at 9 a.m., there will be disruptions in your OR schedule. Yes, things don't always go as planned on the day of surgery.
You must schedule add-on cases. Fill gaps in the schedule. Move cases. Assign staff. Prioritize limited resources and personnel. Prepare patients. Sequence urgent cases. You must adjust on the fly, be comfortable with chaos and sometimes manage by the seat of your pants, by instinct or by intuition.
What if you could integrate decision-making on the day of surgery? After reading this article about OR management on the day of surgery, you'll better understand how to decide what cases to postpone, what cases to move and so forth in response to unforeseen changes in the OR schedule. The goal of all of this is to maximize OR efficiency and minimize patient waiting time.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Drawing up a winning schedule: How to maximize OR efficiency and minimize patient waiting time on the day of surgery
- Creators
- Franklin Dexter - University of Iowa, Anesthesia
- Resource Type
- Magazine article
- Publication Details
- Outpatient surgery, pp.38-47
- ISSN
- 1528-8137
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2005
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9984362852402771
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